davidd’s A DOLL A DAY 2022

[davidd]

Ha ha, she looks a bit like my grade 4–5 teacher.    did not love her!
That has been a versatile setting.

My grade 4 teacher, Mrs. Watson, and I clashed over various issues; yet oddly enough, grade 4 was my favorite year in school. Perhaps that is more a commentary of how challenging things became in later years more than suggesting that grade 4 was good.

A versatile setting... or an over-used setting. I have some plans, should I ever get around to implementing them, for some "inserts" that will, in theory, change up the appearance with relatively little inconvenience.

It looks rather like a torture chamber. 

Isn't that how many lower elementary students view their schools?

Or at least, they did when I was a kid in school. By the time I was teaching, I actually had students cry when school breaks came along, saying they had nothing to do at home and that school was fun and that they'd miss their friends. These days, kids don't get to go outside and play with other kids in the neighborhood, I guess. They can't just ride their bikes to the end of the block and play in somebody else's yard or orchard or sand pit. Kids live in housing developments and apartments that don't have kid-friendly spaces, and parents are afraid to let kids out lest they be kidnapped or something.

Ah, for the Good Old Days when school was torture and we couldn't wait for the weekends, holidays, and breaks!

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12 May - A Doll A Day 2022:
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12 May - Novi Stars Vera Tabray

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This release was challenging to find in the States. I believe I purchased this one from a European seller via eBay. I should have left her boxed. Boxed examples are selling... not asking price, selling price... in the four-hundred dollar and up range. I've not put this figure to much use since opening the carton, so I would not have missed out on much had I left her boxed. But... that was back in, like, 2013 or something, so water under the bridge, eh?